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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Brain for Sale

My brain has a mind of its own. I know this sounds a bit strange, seeing as how my brain, in fact, houses my own mind, but that's beside the point. My brain has a mind of its own. And apparently that mind is horribly afraid of oversleeping and being late. So afraid, in fact, that whenever I have to get up earlier than 7am, it wakes me up in the middle of the night and makes sure I can't go back to sleep. Apparently this mind completely missed the memo about those little things called alarm clocks. It keeps me wide awake until I decide to get up and start getting ready. And it keeps me wide awake the entire time I'm getting ready for work and only when I get in the car and start driving is it properly reassured that I won't go back to bed and be late.

At this point that mind stops keeping me awake by force, and just settles back for a smooth ride. When this happens, my own mind takes over. Now, keep in mind that my own mind hasn't had more than 3 hours of sleep and is still in a mild coma. What invariably happens next is I turn the radio on as loud as I can stand, hoping that this ancient method of torture will help me survive the 30-minute drive without falling asleep.

That's roughly what happened again this morning. Then I spent the entire day at work marvelling over the fact that it apparently isn't enough that time can stand still, it can also run backwards. I noticed this when I kept looking at my clock and every time I checked it was getting earlier and earlier. I would love to talk to whoever said it was okay for time to do that.

But, I digress. For reasons explained above, I am selling my brain to the highest bidder. Any takers? *
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11 comments:

  1. How about a quarter, two packs of gum, a piece of chocolate and some belly button lint?

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  2. Casey - the belly button lint will be really hard to top. You're totally one step ahead of any competition at this point.

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  3. I would like to up the bid to 2 quarters a ring pop homemmade chocolate cake and toe jam

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  4. I'm not sure if the toe jam thing made me really happy that someone would go through the trouble of collecting that stuff for me and my brain, or if it just made me throw up a little in my mouth.

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  5. I bid 30 of those yummy chocolatechip muffins!
    (but you know i can't bake so if you could do it for me it would be super..thanks)

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  6. Now we're talking, I love those muffins! And since I'm already doing your homework, baking everything else you make and loaning you my cleaning supplies, I might as well bake them myself too.

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  7. I think you should be glad I loan yours cleaning supplies...now you have an acctual reason not to clean! ;)

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  8. I'm pretty sure this will be a winning bid: A handful of swedish coins, the last few months' dust from my apartment (that's a might lot, you know), and to finish this offer off; a bunch of those marianne laku candybars. :-)

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  9. Muschu - you borrowing all my cleaning supplies is also the reason to why the floors in my apartment are starting to feel sticky under my feet. :P

    M - Damn, I'm gonna have a hard time choosing between the muffins and the candybars. Although, I'm on a diet so I'm probably better off choosing the belly button lint and toe jam after all...

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  10. Damn, I missed out on this bidding.

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  11. Sin - don't worry honey, there will be new ones. Just let me know what body part you'd be interested in.

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